Recaps

Wang Yu examined the treasures taken from the Spirit Herb Garden and Dai Zong, narrowly survived the poison left on Dai Zong’s codex, and discovered that one of the yellow gourds contained a potent corrosive liquid. The chapter left him assessing the damage the liquid had caused inside the hollow tree.

• Wang Yu tested the Blackwood Sword Leaf and identified the Jade Flame Fruit as a valuable ingredient for pills that benefited fire-attribute cultivators.
• Wang Yu examined Dai Zong’s belongings and found artifacts, bottles, gourds, and the Copper Coconut Poison Codex.
• Wang Yu touched the codex and was poisoned, but used medicinal pills and his fire-attribute cultivation art to suppress and refine the poison.
• Wang Yu wrapped the codex in hide, sealed it with talismans, and stored it safely.
• Wang Yu tested one yellow gourd and saw its dark green liquid eat through the soil, leaving a deep hole and a pale green patch.

Wang Yu examined the Mara Sect True Disciple’s belongings and discovered that a pair of Black Arm Rings increased his strength. When he opened a sealed Silver Box, a Black Orb inside unleashed lightning powerful enough to burn his palm, leaving him to treat the injury and the orb’s purpose unresolved.

• Wang Yu burned the swarming insects in a pit, cleared away their foul odor, and stored the two gourds of dark green liquid.
• Wang Yu searched the ape-and-panther-transforming Mara Sect True Disciple’s Storage Bag and found demon beast pelts, Blood Escape Talismans, a Blood-Colored Small Arrow, Black Arm Rings, and a Silver Box.
• Wang Yu tested the Blood-Colored Small Arrow but found that he could not activate it properly.
• Wang Yu discovered that wearing both Black Arm Rings increased his strength by nearly twenty percent, then cleaned them and put them back on.
• Wang Yu opened the Silver Box and found a Black Orb that blasted his palm with lightning when he touched its black vapor.
• Wang Yu closed the box and used a talisman to heal his scorched palm.

Wang Yu examined the Thunder Pearl and the Black Soul Sect disciple’s possessions before cautiously continuing through the Mountain Range. He found two Demon Beasts fighting in a hollow over a fragrant, snow-leaved tree.

• Wang Yu discovered that the Thunder Pearl was a Second Tier Magical Artifact and packed it away with his other spoils.
• Wang Yu searched the Black Soul Sect disciple’s Storage Bag but found mostly bones, White Bone Fiends, and unranked bone artifacts.
• Wang Yu left the woods and traveled slowly along secluded paths, uneasy after encountering no other cultivators.
• Wang Yu hid from a charging Brown Wild Boar, then followed it into a mountain hollow.
• Wang Yu saw the Brown Wild Boar fighting a green Strange Python beside a small, fragrant white tree.

Wang Yu discovered a rare spirit tea tree while watching two nearly perfected Qi Refining demon beasts fight. He ambushed them and killed the python and boar, leaving the tea tree within reach.

• Wang Yu recognized the little white tree as a rare spirit tea tree and considered the value its leaves could bring.
• Wang Yu watched a giant wild boar and jade-green python fight, waiting for a chance to take advantage of their struggle.
• The python used its spell to entangle the boar with grass, and the boar answered by spitting a pillar of fire.
• Wang Yu appeared above the beasts and used the Silver Folding Fan to force the fire down, then struck the python's eyes and vital spot with three Willow-Leaf Flying Knives.
• Wang Yu landed on the boar's head, deflected its bristles with golden-yellow mist, and battered its head into the earth with Sonic Boom Fist until it stopped moving.

Wang Yu defeated a giant python and a boar, harvesting valuable materials from their bodies. He discovered an unfamiliar Jade-Green Horn inside the python and then turned his attention to the white spirit tea tree and the strange stones scattered around it.

• Wang Yu killed the boar and subdued the giant python by swinging it into the ground before cutting off its head.
• Wang Yu collected the python's gallbladder, an Innate Spirit Object scale, an eye, and an unfamiliar Jade-Green Horn.
• Wang Yu removed the boar's tusks and gathered spiritual flesh and useful bones from both Demon Beasts.
• Wang Yu approached the white spirit tea tree and examined the pale-black, silver-flecked stones around it.

Wang Yu identified a white spirit tea tree, confirmed it was a First Tier Wood Attribute plant, and carefully transplanted it with silver obsidian fragments. Elsewhere, Senior Brother Zhu confronted the surviving cultivators, and a gray-robed couple offered to serve him.

• Wang Yu recognized the black stones as silver obsidian and suspected they were connected to the spirit tea tree.
• Wang Yu tasted a leaf, used Overclocking to recall transplanting instructions, and identified the tree as a First Tier Wood Attribute spirit plant.
• Wang Yu watered and dug up the tea tree with its roots and surrounding soil intact, then stored it with wood spirit stones and silver obsidian.
• At the desert's edge, Senior Brother Zhu stood among the desiccated corpses of Demonic Path disciples and Immortal Cultivators while Li Tianqi and the other survivors watched in silence.
• A gray-robed man and woman praised Senior Brother Zhu and offered to serve him.

Li Tianqi, Senior Brother Meng, and their companion fought the Yin-Yang Corpse Fiends after the indistinct figure on the rock promised to spare whichever side won. They defeated the couple, but the victory left one disciple dead and the survivors gravely wounded.

• The indistinct figure challenged the Yin-Yang Corpse Fiends and the three Four Symbols Sect disciples to fight, promising to spare the winners.
• Senior Brother Meng identified the couple as the Yin-Yang Corpse Fiends and planned for himself to fight the Yang Fiend while Li Tianqi and Junior Sister Yun faced the Yin Fiend.
• Senior Brother Meng transformed and fought the armored zombie while Li Tianqi and Junior Sister Yun attacked the female zombie with their Magical Artifacts.
• After a quarter of an hour, the Four Symbols Sect disciples killed the Yin-Yang Corpse Fiends and destroyed both zombies.
• Senior Brother Meng lost an arm and clutched Junior Sister Yun's corpse, while Li Tianqi and he remained gravely wounded and unable to fight.

Senior Brother Meng and Li Tianqi fled after defeating the Yin-Yang Corpse Fiends, while Yuantong and Yuanming located High Person Jialan’s Brahma Body Dharma Form inside the mist. At the Ancient Temple Ruins, Senior Brother Huang was dragged back inside by a monster and killed.

• The indistinct figure let Senior Brother Meng and Li Tianqi leave, then followed them after checking a bamboo slip.
• Yuantong and Yuanming found that Buddhist Prayer Beads pointed toward the mist, confirming that High Person Jialan’s Brahma Body Dharma Form was within it.
• Yuantong used a Wooden Fish to part the mist, and the two monks entered the hidden area.
• Senior Brother Huang crawled from the Ancient Temple Ruins with his lower legs missing, but black threads seized him and pulled him inside.
• Senior Brother Huang’s head was thrown out of the temple, bearing a ghastly bite mark.

An old monk awakened Kang Wuhen’s memories of his past life as High Person Jialan and offered him a chance to recover Jialan’s essence blood and treasures. Kang Wuhen remained wary and asked what had happened to the companions he had been exploring with, but the monk claimed he had seen no one else.

• The old monk used the Soul-Calling Great Method and recited the Diamond Sutra to awaken Kang Wuhen’s memories of High Person Jialan.
• The old monk explained that he was a weakening imprint of Jialan’s divine thought inhabiting a human puppet.
• The monk offered Kang Wuhen a prayer bead containing Jialan’s essence blood, promising access to his former life’s treasures if he refined it.
• Kang Wuhen hesitated, so the monk freed him and said he would wait for Jialan’s next reincarnation.
• Kang Wuhen asked about his companions, and the monk said he had found Kang Wuhen alone.

Kang Wuhen learned that the old monk was a divine-thought imprint of High Person Jialan and that the prayer bead could help him inherit Jialan’s memories and treasures. As Kang Wuhen began refining the golden blood, disciples in the Mountain Range spotted a huge force of Demonic Path Flying Boats approaching.

• The old monk explained how High Person Jialan prepared a Secret Realm and arranged for his reincarnation to find it.
• The old monk used a prayer bead to confirm Kang Wuhen was Jialan’s reincarnation and explained the Soul-Calling Great Method.
• Kang Wuhen agreed to take the risk, crushed the prayer bead, swallowed its golden blood, and began refining it.
• A group of Thousand Bamboo Sect and Vajra Temple disciples struggled to reach silver lingzhi guarded by armored demon beasts.
• A Thousand Bamboo Sect disciple spotted more than a hundred Demonic Path Flying Boats and warned everyone to run.

The Demonic Path army swept through the mountain range, hunting the other sects while its giant skeleton leader studied a map and redirected the fleet toward the center. There, Tianjunzi and a white-robed monk discovered another map at a hill where disciples had claimed three giant spirit peaches, while a Joyful Bliss Palace woman argued with her hidden junior brother over the spoils of a battle against a Vajra Temple monk.

• Vajra Temple and Thousand Bamboo Sect disciples fled as the Demonic Path army arrived, and Demonic Path disciples pursued and attacked them across the mountain range.
• A black-robed disciple gave the giant skeleton a map drawn on beast hide, and the Demonic Path fleet changed course toward the mountain range’s center.
• Tianjunzi and a white-robed monk watched disciples from the four sects kill a troop of demon monkeys and harvest three giant peaches.
• Tianjunzi and the monk examined a weathered stone stele bearing a faintly visible map.
• A Joyful Bliss Palace woman claimed most of the loot from a defeated Vajra Temple monk, angering her junior brother, who was communicating through a puppet from hiding.

Wang Yu rescued Chu Zhen'er from three demon snakes, only to discover that she had lured him into a trap. After breaking free and striking her down, he exposed her defenses and demanded to know which demonic sect she belonged to.

• Wang Yu hid among the trees as Chu Zhen'er of the Setting Sun Sect fled from three demon snakes and offered a thousand-year-old auspicious cloud grass for help.
• Wang Yu swiftly killed the black and red snakes, then attacked the two-headed snake as it assaulted Chu Zhen'er's protective veil.
• Chu Zhen'er revealed her ruse, bound Wang Yu with a scarlet rope, and engulfed him in flames while the two-headed snake clamped onto his saber.
• Wang Yu broke free, killed the two-headed snake, and kicked Chu Zhen'er into a tree.
• Wang Yu saw Chu Zhen'er protected by three light screens and demanded to know whether she was a disciple of the Mara Sect or the Joyful Bliss Palace.

Wang Yu confronted Ye Zhen of the Mara Sect, who had tracked him using birds marked with his essence blood. Ye Zhen fled after he destroyed her summoned snakes and wounded her with his Flying Knives, leaving Wang Yu to consider how to make the weapons more powerful.

• Ye Zhen revealed her identity and explained that she had tracked Wang Yu with an artifact and birds carrying his essence blood.
• Wang Yu recognized Ye Zhen as the third Mara Sect true disciple he had killed and transformed to prepare for battle.
• Ye Zhen released a swarm of black snakes, concealed herself in poisonous fog, and escaped with a Blood Escape Talisman.
• Wang Yu killed the snakes and struck Ye Zhen with his Willow-Leaf Flying Knives, but she escaped with one of them.
• Wang Yu wondered whether he could coat his Flying Knives with the dark green poison he had obtained from Dai Zong.

Ye Zhen escaped Wang Yu’s attack but discovered that his flying knife was a Second-Tier Sword Weapon. Wang Yu tested a poison coating and sealed it onto a knife with moon wax stone, preparing a new weapon.

• Ye Zhen fled with a Blood Escape Talisman, removed Wang Yu’s flying knife, and treated her abdominal wound.
• Ye Zhen examined the knife’s cutting power and recognized its nine Spirit Inscriptions as Lifebound Sword Inscriptions for a Second-Tier Sword Weapon.
• Wang Yu coated a flying knife with poison and tested its ability to wither a tree.
• Wang Yu used moon wax stone to seal the poison onto the flying knife, following a method from the Copper Coconut Poison Codex.

Wang Yu searched the Mountain Range, discovered signs of deadly encounters, and encountered Ximen Mei fleeing from a formidable blood-colored foe. The foe attacked him, but Wang Yu struck it with a golden-mist-wrapped fist and sent it flying.

• Wang Yu reread the Copper Coconut Poison Codex without touching it, then released birds carrying vials of his essence blood and headed toward the Mountain Range's center.
• Wang Yu found a broken hilt from a sword he had forged and realized a Four Symbols Sect disciple had likely died nearby.
• Wang Yu discovered male Setting Sun Sect disciples dead in pairs in a sinister valley and left without touching their storage bags.
• Wang Yu hid after seeing two red dots approach on his Crystal Orb, then recognized Ximen Mei as she flew past and warned him of the pursuing foe.
• The blood-colored foe attacked Wang Yu, passed through his firearm's flames and his kick, but was knocked back when his golden-mist-wrapped fist struck its face.

Wang Yu fought a blood-robed man whose body could deflect attacks and regenerate from severe wounds. After the two exchanged powerful strikes, the stranger introduced himself as Zhu Wuyan, the Mara Sect’s third True Disciple, and declared Wang Yu would die.

• Wang Yu tested the blood-colored stranger with his saber and golden fist shadows, but the stranger’s blood halos dispersed the attacks.
• Wang Yu and the stranger advanced against each other with their respective forces, revealing the stranger’s skinless, shriveled appearance.
• The stranger attacked with Black Spirit Finger as Wang Yu threw two poisoned knives, damaging both fighters.
• Wang Yu burned away the black blood threads trying to enter his chest, while the stranger tore out the poisoned flesh and regenerated.
• The stranger identified himself as Zhu Wuyan, the Mara Sect’s third True Disciple, and claimed he was destined to become a Core Formation patriarch.

Wang Yu fought Zhu Wuyan’s Blood-Draining Art inside a blood-red hurricane, using his black tiger baleful body and martial techniques to break through the wind. The chapter ended with Wang Yu piercing Zhu Wuyan’s chest from behind, spilling a torrent of blood.

• Wang Yu activated his black tiger baleful body and coated his Blue-Red Long Saber in golden mist as Zhu Wuyan swallowed a pill and concealed his true form.
• Wang Yu’s Draw-Cutting Art struck Zhu Wuyan’s afterimage, and Zhu Wuyan trapped him in a blood-red hurricane.
• Zhu Wuyan unleashed the Blood-Draining Art, forcing Wang Yu to suppress the suction that threatened to drain his blood.
• Wang Yu used a barrage of golden handprints to shatter the hurricane wall and extinguish the Blood-Draining Art’s suction.
• Wang Yu evaded Zhu Wuyan’s bloody fist shadows with beastlike afterimages, then pierced him through the chest with his Golden Armguard-clad arm.

Wang Yu fought Zhu Wuyan’s Blood-Draining Art, tearing apart a blood-filled human-skin shadow before Zhu Wuyan summoned three more. Two women watched the battle through Mechanical Dragonflies, but when Ximen decided to help Wang Yu, the woman in pink moved to stop her.

• A blood shadow and a skin-like creature trapped Wang Yu, but he used sound and vibration to escape and tear the creature in two.
• Wang Yu realized the creature was only an empty human skin, while Zhu Wuyan recovered and summoned three more skin shadows.
• Wang Yu summoned three pale red bronze mirrors as Mechanical Dragonflies observed the battle from nearby and from a distant cloud.
• The woman in pink questioned Ximen about Wang Yu’s identity, and Ximen ended their shared surveillance.
• Ximen said she would help Wang Yu fight Zhu Wuyan, so the woman in pink summoned two magical artifacts to block her.
• Ximen called the woman in pink a madwoman and produced a white disc as a Golden Toad phantom appeared at her shoulder.

Wang Yu and Zhu Wuyan prepared for a decisive clash, but an approaching fleet of Great Ming Four Sects Flying Boats forced Zhu Wuyan to flee. Wang Yu recovered his weapons and headed toward the newcomers to learn what had happened in the Mountain Range.

• Zhu Wuyan drew essence blood with his Black Knife Hilt and formed a second-tier Blood Blade, while his three shadow clones turned their severed arms into matching sabers.
• Wang Yu took out a Beast-Skin Talisman resembling the Blood Blade and prepared his Parent-Child Floating Mirrors for battle.
• A swarm of forty or fifty Flying Boats carrying Great Ming Four Sects disciples approached, interrupting the impending clash.
• Zhu Wuyan used a Blood-Colored Talisman to escape with his shadow clones, and Wang Yu chose not to pursue him.
• Wang Yu recalled his Parent-Child Floating Mirrors and flying knives, then flew toward the newcomers to question a Four Symbols Sect disciple.

Wang Yu witnessed a Demonic Path assault rout the Four Sects fleet and fled after seeing a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s bone hands crush boats. The Black Soul Sect Patriarch then revealed that the attack was meant to clear the way for him to investigate High Person Jialan’s hidden treasure in the mountain range.

• Wang Yu saw the Demonic Path fleet pursue the fleeing Four Sects boats, while a Sky-Reaching Bone Hand crushed several vessels.
• Wang Yu used a Blood-Colored Talisman to escape, and the remaining Four Sects disciples scattered as the Demonic Path groups pursued them.
• The Black Soul Sect Patriarch appeared on a White Bone Throne and said he had routed the Four Sects to reach the place connected to High Person Jialan’s arrangements.
• A middle-aged Black Soul Sect disciple explained that he had contacted True Disciples from the Joyful Bliss Palace and Mara Sect, but many Demonic Path True Disciples had been killed.
• The Patriarch ordered the two contacted True Disciples to meet them and asked about the Mara Sect’s little madman.

Wang Yu escaped a Demonic Path Foundation Establishment cultivator and met Ximen Mei again in the Jialan Secret Realm. Ximen revealed her true appearance and her connection to Heaven Toad Ancestor, while Wang Yu asked why she had entered the dangerous trial.

• White Bone Fiend learned that Zhu Wuyan had killed disciples from both sides and ordered his men to find him and recruit him.
• Wang Yu used a Blood Escape Talisman to flee from the Demonic Path Foundation Establishment cultivator and decided to leave the mountain range.
• Ximen Mei caught up with Wang Yu aboard a fast Flying Boat, removed her veil, and explained that a Youth-Preserving Spirit Medicine had kept her youthful appearance.
• Ximen Mei showed Wang Yu two reusable Spirit Bird Feathers bestowed by her ancestor, which increased the speed of her Flying Boat.
• Ximen Mei confirmed that Heaven Toad Ancestor was her ancestor and explained that her family had almost only one heir per generation.
• Wang Yu asked why Ximen Mei, despite her distinguished background, had entered the Jialan Trial.

Wang Yu reunited with Ximen Mei, who explained her encounter with Zhu Wuyan and asked him to escort her to a place in the mountain range on Heaven Toad Ancestor’s orders. She promised him a True Disciple position and a request from her ancestor in return, and Wang Yu considered accepting despite his concerns about the danger.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that Heaven Toad Ancestor had ordered her to participate in the trial and that she had warned him about Zhu Wuyan.
• Ximen Mei explained that Zhu Wuyan had nearly defeated her, and that Bi Xinxiu had helped her escape.
• Ximen Mei described Bi Xinxiu’s Bewitching Art and warned Wang Yu that she killed men from both the righteous and Demonic Paths.
• Wang Yu gave Ximen Mei vague explanations for his increased strength, citing years of cultivation, his ancient Breathing Technique, and his artifact-refining skill.
• Ximen Mei offered Wang Yu a True Disciple position and a request from Heaven Toad Ancestor if he escorted her safely to a nearby destination.
• Ximen Mei said the trip was her ancestor’s business and would be manageable if they avoided the Demonic Path forces; Wang Yu weighed her offer and his risk of not returning.

Ximen Mei revealed that Heaven Toad Ancestor had inherited part of High Person Jialan’s legacy and sent her to retrieve an item hidden in the Jialan Secret Realm. Wang Yu examined the map and Jade Pendant, which pinpointed a location deep in the mountain range, and remained committed to accompanying her.

• Wang Yu questioned why Ximen Mei’s ancestor knew about a location in the secret realm, and she agreed to explain after he warned her about the danger.
• Ximen Mei revealed that Heaven Toad Ancestor had found the Jialan Secret Key and part of High Person Jialan’s inheritance, which made him a Successor Disciple.
• Ximen Mei explained that the inheritance contained a clue to an item her ancestor needed, and she had found a map that revealed its location.
• Ximen Mei gave Wang Yu the Jade Pendant and scroll, and he used Overclocking to memorize the map of the secret realm.
• Wang Yu aligned the Jade Pendant’s projected lines with the map and discovered a point of light deep in the central mountain range.

Wang Yu agreed to help Ximen Mei retrieve an important item from the Secret Realm after learning she had a Talisman Treasure that could conceal them. He negotiated for her to ask Heaven Toad Ancestor to make him a nominal disciple, and the chapter ended as Ximen Mei activated the banner and vanished with her Flying Boat.

• Ximen Mei explained that her Little Mi-Cloud Banner could conceal them from even Foundation Establishment cultivators but required a constant infusion of dharma power.
• Wang Yu agreed to accompany Ximen Mei and asked her to seek nominal disciple status for him with Heaven Toad Ancestor, with formal discipleship if he later reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ximen Mei agreed to ask her ancestor, while warning that she could not guarantee his approval and that the original terms would otherwise stand.
• Ximen Mei summoned the Little Mi-Cloud Banner Talisman Treasure and shook it, making herself and the white jade Flying Boat disappear.
• Wang Yu failed to detect them with his divine sense or enhanced vision and praised the banner's concealment power.

Ximen Mei explained to Wang Yu the difference between Spirit Artifacts and Spirit Treasures while they traveled under the Little Mi-Cloud Banner’s protection. She then asked about his accomplishments in the Secret Realm, and Wang Yu said he had killed three Demonic Path True Disciples.

• Ximen Mei appeared with the White Jade Flying Boat and used the Little Mi-Cloud Banner to shield the boat and its passengers.
• Wang Yu asked what distinguished a Spirit Artifact from a Treasure Artifact, and Ximen Mei explained how Magical Artifacts developed spirituality into Spirit Artifacts and, eventually, Spirit Treasures.
• Ximen Mei said her ancestor had obtained the Little Mi-Cloud Banner’s original artifact through an exchange and confirmed that the Four Symbols Sect possessed a Spirit Treasure.
• Ximen Mei asked Wang Yu which Demonic Path True Disciples he had killed, and Wang Yu reported killing two from the Mara Sect and one from the Black Soul Sect.